Comments on: Hire Michael Schur

Hire Michael Schur

RogerB — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:57:51 -0800

The authors of the sportswriting-mocking blog Fire Joe Morgan have dropped their previous anonymity. Among the blog's contributors was the late Robert Altman.

(Yes, that Robert Altman.) The most frequent contributors are TV comedy writers. Apparently Diablo Cody comments there occasionally. Among the unanswered questions: who is Chester Jesterton? (FJM previously on MeFi.)

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:08:09 -0800

Wow, some famous people are talking. also, I use dto like that arm-flap thing Joe Morgan used to do.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:11:21 -0800

Wait... what? Robert Altman? Diablo Cody? For reals and for trues? It makes sense to me that they are involved with shows I find funny. Because these guys are hilarious.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:26:43 -0800

*by "they" I mean the three main guys and specifically Ken Tremendous. Goddamn do I love FJM.

By: RogerB

RogerB — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:47:48 -0800

Okay, apparently the Altman thing was a joke. Color me embarrassed.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:50:00 -0800

Where's this Robert Altman thing coming from? I can't find it mentioned in any of the links in the FPP, and Google is turning up nothing but this post.

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:52:40 -0800

From the previous thread: Fuck the heck! I love finding new ways of cursing.

By: mullacc

mullacc — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:53:03 -0800

I liked it better when Ken Tremendous was "the mild-mannered Pension Fund Monitor for Fremulon Insurance, based in Partridge, KS, who copies dumb articles about baseball and adds snarky comments." Still, I love FJM.

By: RogerB

RogerB — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:57:44 -0800

Well, considering that what I thought was the most interesting part of this saga turned out to be a deadpan joke there may not be much to see here, but maybe the bloggers-as-Super-Friends/secret-identity question is still interesting without the "on the Internet, no one knows you're famous" angle that the Altman joke seemed to suggest. I'm personally inclined to agree with mullacc that the FJM writers were somehow a little more entertaining with their "masks" intact (even if that raises the unpalatable shade of Wealth Bondage), but I can't figure out why this would be. I mean, we all knew Fremulon Insurance was a sham, so why does the revelation somehow remove like 5% of the funny?

By: popechunk

popechunk — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:08:46 -0800

I think that it doesn't matter if they're anonymous or not, as long as they're consistent. Consistency is what makes any blog great, and these are some of the most consistent bloggers on the internet. Also, they're quite scrappy.

By: dersins

dersins — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:34:08 -0800

Also, they're quite scrappy. You could even calls them gamers. Gamers like Dykstra. "Nails" Dykstra.

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:14:50 -0800

Swear to blog?!

By: unsupervised

unsupervised — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:01:22 -0800

Get ready to meet my little friend.

By: christonabike

christonabike — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:25:15 -0800

Almost the entirety of this post is incorrect. Neither Robert Altman nor Diablo Cody are involved with FJM. To see the actual names, check out the about us portion of the page. They are: Ken Tremendous - Michael Schur Junior - Alan Yang dak - Dave King (pretty sure that's the right one) That said, FJM is probably the best meta-sports site on the internet. Among the best of their stuff is the "JoeChat" series, which digests the weekly Joe Morgan ESPN chat session during baseball season.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:27:42 -0800

The diablo cody thing might still be possible, btw. Check out the comments to the post. Probably not, though.

By: RogerB

RogerB — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:30:29 -0800

Yeah, I'll be the first to admit this FPP is looking like it's clogging Metafilter's basepaths right now, but I posted it with real hustle, and that's got to count for something. We'll just have to grit it out until the end of the inning.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:47:07 -0800

RogerB writes "Yeah, I'll be the first to admit this FPP is looking like it's clogging Metafilter's basepaths right now, but I posted it with real hustle, and that's got to count for something. We'll just have to grit it out until the end of the inning." And with that, you are redeemed.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:20:00 -0800

What's funny to me is that I have had real-life conversations with Schur in the past, and have discussed things with Ken Tremendous via FJM, without connecting the two. Even though they're pretty much the same personality, now that I think about it, and it should have been obvious.

By: graventy

graventy — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:27:25 -0800

Swear to blog?! C'mon, basicchannel, get your designed-in-the-movies sayings right. It's "Honest to blog?!" Man, I hope that catches on. It'd be so wizard!

By: puckupdate

puckupdate — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:36:22 -0800

This just in: TheBigLead is written by J.D. Salinger.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:40:04 -0800

You statheads want to talk about things like "Favorites Ratio" and "double-posts" but RogerB brings intangibles to Metafilter that you just can't measure. He's a salty gamer that brings veteran leadership to this, and he knows how to win because he's got a ring.

By: Jay Reimenschneider

Jay Reimenschneider — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:11:17 -0800

Call it "Fire Joe Buck" and maybe you'll get more hits. It's 2008, guys. Another over-rated blog. What a shock.

By: justgary

justgary — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:29:31 -0800

Another over-rated blog. What a shock. Such a bold claim. Please show me another baseball blog better. Until you do, I'll just assume you simply don't know anything about baseball.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:33:48 -0800

Call it "Fire Joe Buck" and maybe you'll get more hits. It's 2008, guys. First, they don't need more hits. They get plenty. Also, they don't want hits from folks like you. Second, Joe Morgan is one of ESPN's main baseball analysts. In 2008.

By: sellout

sellout — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:31:38 -0800

Call it "Fire Joe Buck" and maybe you'll get more hits. It's 2008, guys. Another over-rated blog. What a shock. Looks like someone didn't bother clicking through. I read a lot of baseball blogs. FJM is one of my favorites. There is no site that so consistently (and successfully) takes poor sports journalism to task. And good god, there is a lot of poor sports journalism.

By: sellout

sellout — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:37:56 -0800

no other* site

By: Mental Wimp

Mental Wimp — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:12:49 -0800

Off topic, but I still miss Batgirl.